Art of knitting string-work fabric.



W. T. BARRATT. ART OF KNITTING STRING WORK FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED APR.19.1906.

Patented Aug. 8, 1.911.

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ART OF KNITTING STHING WORK FABRIC APPLICATION FILED APR.1U,1QOG\ QEfififik Patented Aug. 8, 1911.

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ART OF KNITTING STRING-WORK FAFIRIO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1911.

Application filed April 19, 1906. Serial No; 312,612.

To all whom it may concern: I Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. BARRATT, a citizen of the .United States, residing at Bennington, in the county of Bcnnington and State of Vermont, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Art of Knitting String-Work Fabric, of which the following is a s ecification.

This invention relates to an im rovement in the art of knitting string-work abric.

The object of the invention is to produce a knitted fabric either in fiat or tubular form which consists'of a series ofpieces or sections of fabric; each piece terminating in a welt which is joined to the adjacent piece in such a manner that it can be easily separated without injury to either piece by cutting the same transversely thereof, or by withdrawform of ribbed knitted fabric.

ing a course of plain fabric uniting the two pieces each of said sections or pieces having a welt at one end thereof such as may be used in cuffs and the like for underwear.

The invention consists in'a knitted fabric constructed as described in the following specification and particularly as set forth inthe claim.

Referring to-the drawings: Figure lis a diagram view of my improved knitted fabric. Figs. 2 to 9 inclusive are diagram views showing two needles and a diagram view of the fabric-illustratin the manner in which said fabric is manu actured. Fig. 10 is a perspective view, of a portion of my improved fabric; illustrating particularly the plain fabric courses which connect one piece of the fabric to the other.

. Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, the fabric is-shown in Figs. 1 and 9 in diagram view in its complete form, and consists of a series of sections joined together in the following orderi First a section of ribbed work 12, which may he made by lmitting with two sets of needles a one-and-one, two-and-one, or any j The next section 13 is formed by a tuck-stitch or it may be formed by a pull-down slack course knitted on the primary needles and forming a lock-stitch for the purposehereinafter described. The next section 14 is formed by 9.

plain stitch which is joined by a single course 15 of one-and-one to a welt 16, the next course being the commencementjof a new ribbed section 12.

My improved fabric is knit upon two sets of needles, either on a flat machine or on any of the different forms of-circular machines, such as latch needle dial machines and spring needle two cylinder machines. In the following description of the manner in which my improved fabric is knit,, the diagram views. Figs. 2 to 9 inclusive, illustrate two needles which may be either spring or latch needles and the different stitches are indicated in dia rammatic form. Referring,

now, to these gures of the drawings 2 to 9,

secondary needle. The relative positions of the primary and secondary needles in the drawings, Figs. 2 to 9, inclusive, may be varied to stand at different angles to each other and the yarn may be fed to either the vertical or'to the horizontal needle first with out departing from the spirit of my invention/ I have, however, illustrated and described the vertical needle 18 as the primary needle and the horizontal needle 19 as the secondary needle. The yarn is fed to the primary needle by any of the well known means and the, two sets of needles are first operated to knit a section of ribbed work 12 (Fig. 2).. Said needles are next 0 erated to knit a lock-stitch section 13, whic may be formed either by stuck-stitch. or by a pulldown slack, course (Fig. 3), the secondary needles being held back out of operation and the locking course knitted on the primary v imitting in continuation of said courses the beginning of another section having them loops of ltsnprnnary course drawn to each i In testimony whereof I have hereunto set y hand 1n presence of two subscribing wit- 10 messes. face of the fabric whereby the dropped v r stitches will ravel oiit between said primary W ILLIAM A course and'the course locked by the locking 1 \Vitnesses:

course, forming an intervening section of f loose plain knittlng. g

CHARLES S. KBIIUE, EARL A. SMITH. 

